Departure – Explore the wetlands
🕚 07:00: Private car picks you up at home (Saigon), gives out "Eco Discovery Box" including:
🚹 Travel guide
🚹 Mini magnifying glass
🚹 Mangrove animal and plant sticker set for children
🕚 09:00: Arrive in Can Gio – stop at the factory/farm producing sugar from water coconut.
Factory experience – learning by doing
🕚 09:15 – 11:00: Visit the model of harvesting – cooking – filtering – packaging coconut sugar:
🚹 Children can cut leaves and collect water from nipa flowers by themselves.
🚹 Observe the traditional oven, try using a thermometer to measure the temperature of the sugar water.
🚹 Practice making “small sugar jars as gifts” to take home.
STEAM integrated educational activities:
🚹 Learn about the physiology of water coconut trees, their role in water filtration and anti-erosion.
🚹 Game "Find the clean road" - suggests industrial road with natural road.
🚹 Do a mini experiment: sweetness & crystallization from different sugar samples.
Lunch – Ecology & Nutrition
🕚 11:30 – 13:00: Lunch at the eco-restaurant in the mangrove forest:
🚹 Dishes made from seafood - wild vegetables - coconut sugar (salad, stew, steamed).
🚹 Children have a snack including: rice, vegetable soup, rice paper rolls & pure fruit juice.
🕚 Take a nap in a hammock with family in a thatched house, enjoying the river breeze.
Exploring mangrove forests – survival skills
🕚 13:30 – 15:00:
🚹 Travel by canoe or small wooden boat through the mangrove forest.
🚹 Tour guide shares about Can Gio ecosystem (recognized by UNESCO).
🚹 Children participate in searching for forest creatures (crabs, mudskippers, water birds...) using the "Biological Map".
👉Challenge: “Family survival in mangrove area”:
🚹 Take on small tasks like filtering water, setting up a simulated tent, tying a rescue rope...
Trip Summary – Back to Saigon
🕚 15:30 – 17:00: Car takes you back to Ho Chi Minh City.
🚹 Issue certificates of "Little Eco-House - Green Learning House" to children.
🚹 Summary of the journey in the car: children stick stickers, complete the journey book, and recount the experience.
**Program order may change depending on actual situation**